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TALK TO YOUR LOCAL SCHOOL & LIBRARY: ENDING HOMOPHOBIA IN SCHOOLS NOW, 2012-2013

To celebrate 10 years of real change in schools around Australia, Daniel Witthaus is launching a ‘Talk To Your Local School and Library’ Campaign: End Homophobia Now. Pride & Prejudice, the only formally evaluated educational package for everyday schools, has changed the attitudes and homo-aggressive behaviours of 1000s and 1000s of students in every corner of Australia since its launch in 2002.

Pride & Prejudice is an easy-to-follow, interactive six-week program that gets students talking. It doesn’t hide behind broader terms like bullying, diversity and safety, or rely only on posters and stickers alone. It provides real examples of lesbian, gay and bisexual people.

Pride & Prejudice, and the book it inspired, Beyond ‘That’s So Gay’, go beyond talk and awareness-raising. Both the popular resources provide teachers, health professionals and homophobia-curious others with strategies they can use in their classrooms and schoolyards immediately. Not when it gets better. Now. They are available here: 10 Year Combined.

People motivated to end homophobia in schools have reported success when they approach their local school and library to ask a simple question: ‘Do you have this resource?’ Most find that the schools and libraries are quick to get the resources to use for educators and to display for library users.

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Just wondering if you could come to my school, there really isn’t enough acceptance here and its difficult for the people in the school who haven’t come out, and for everyone else as well. Personally, its difficult for me to live as myself in school as a transgender girl.